Outdoor lighting can certainly add beauty to your darkened Manhattan and Homer Glen IL landscape but it also improves the safety, too. These outdoor lighting ideas can transform your outdoor spaces into the place of your dreams.
Entry from Street and Driveway
When guests are searching for your home, it is easy to locate because the house numbers and driveway entry are lighted? If not, make finding your home a breeze with outdoor lighting.
A landscaper can design and build pillars for the entry from the street to your property. Topped house beautiful and visible. When a spotlight shines on the house number, this can make slowing down and turning into your driveway safer, too.
Driveway
Arriving at your home where the driveway is dark can make your guests feel a little uneasy. Have your landscaper install discreet lighting in the adjoining landscape beds for a soft glow over the surface of the driveway. When they pull into the property and look for parking, it will be visible and easy to navigate.
Walkway
Many times the walkway from the parking area to the front entry can feel like an afterthought. Instead, have your landscaper widen the walkway to a comfortable four feet, resurface with gorgeous walkway pavers, and add landscape lighting.
Walkway pavers are durable, stand up to heavy foot traffic, and won’t fade or crack from the hot summers and the cold winters. Because all walkway pavers can be mixed and matched to create a unique walkway, you can work with your landscaper to plan something that suits your style.
They can add triple borders at the edge of the walkway for increased interest and change the laying pattern to signify a shift in movement. With a classic brick-look, old world cobblestone, and sleek, geometric walkway pavers, there is a paver choice and pattern to make your walkway dazzling.
Along with the new walkway, they can install flush lighting for a soft glow and fixtures that are hidden in the landscape beds so all you see is a lovely space that offers excellent visibility.
Entryway
As you plan your new walkway, expanding and deepening the steps can also increase the safety for you and your guests. Beneath the lip of the stone step, a landscaper can add step lighting to bring the surface to light for easy movement.
They can also change the sconces on your front porch and any hanging lanterns into a current style that offers more lighting above and below the sconce for improved vision.
Landscape Beds
Adding lighting to the perimeter of landscape beds can make them stand out in the dark front yard. You can add spotlights to special shrubs and to any trees that would look amazing with illuminated bark.
When your landscaper varies the distance of the spotlights, the shadows and light can make your trees seem ethereal. Lights nestled in the tree branches can illuminate the leaves to look like moonlight is filtering through.
An experienced landscape professional can add landscape lighting to any part of your landscape to increase the visibility and safety. At the same time, your landscape can become a vision of illuminated beauty.
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